Lita Kamavuako and Mansoni Luvenga, GAMA, October 1995.
President Mobutu says the three main pillars of his
power are "money, the secret service and foreign
policiy." How trade with Belgium supports this; arms
exports to Zaire possibly in exchange for Zairean
prostitutes.

By Megan Arney, in the Militant, 25 November
1996. Using the pretext of securing "humanitarian
aid" for more than 1 million refugees, Paris and
other imperialist governments have been pushing for
military intervention since the beginning of November.

Amnesty International Urgent Action Bulletin, 5 December
1996. The AFDL has been responsible for deliberate and
arbitrary killings of hundreds of unarmed civilians,
including many Rwandese refugees, since fighting broke
out between the AFDL and the Zairian security forces in
eastern Zaire in October 1996.

By Mumia Abu-Jamal, 21 June 1997. Mobutu's rise, his maintenance,
and even his fall from power, were orchestrated and managed
from Western and European capitals. His office was held in
the service of, and to protect the interests of, Western
wealth.

From Amnesty International, 16 July 1997. Attempts by the
UN to placate the DRC government could compromise the
investigations into gross human rights violations. Thousands
of Rwandese Hutu refugees and other unarmed civilians,
including citizens and Burundian Hutu refugees, are reported
to have been deliberately and arbitrarily killed by armed
combatants since September 1996 and are still reported in June
1997.

Associated Press, in Philadelphia Daily News,
8 September 1997. Mobutu, who for decades was a strong
anti-communist ally of the United States in Africa,
died of cancer at a military hospital in Morocco. Mobutu
became a symbol of excess and when he was ousted after
an eight-month rebellion in May, his resource-rich country
of 45 million was in economic and political shambles. Mobutu
was the last of Africa's Cold War relics.